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What's the best April Fool joke you've ever pulled?

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ClumsyNinja · 01/04/2015 09:20

or had pulled on you?

I love silly jokes that are just a bit daft but nothing nasty.

My brother once phoned me to say my ex was sat in the audience of a live (shite) TV show and I spent all morning glued to the screen trying to spot him!

My DH told me the cows in the next field had escaped and were eating the washing... Did NOT fall for that one.

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Beeswax2017 · 01/04/2015 09:30

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Stratter5 · 01/04/2015 10:41

Sent the DDs to get dihydrogen monoxide from the chemists.

StellaAlpina · 01/04/2015 10:49

One year when I was little, and Easter and April fools were only a few days away from each other one of my grown up cousins rigged up and exploding balloon easter egg for me to give to my grandma. (Imagine the posh easter eggs wrapped in shiny paper with ribbon, not the ones that come in boxes)
Anyway, she opened her easter egg and the balloon popped. Little 5 year old me found this the most exiting thing ever.

gallicgirl · 01/04/2015 10:49

I used to teach English as a foreign language in Greece. Adult students were a mix of nationalities using Greek as their lingua franca.

I did an April Fools lesson based around a fictitious new EU law which would make English the official language of the EU. All other languages were to be banned and phased out over next 2 years, Greek would be first to go.

The students believed me totally and I cracked up laughing at the horror on their faces.

BooChunky · 01/04/2015 11:01

I just sent DH a photo of a positive pregnancy test I knew I had saved on my phone... So very obviously in our bathroom.

If he doesn't remember the date he will freak out and it will be hilarious

Discopanda · 01/04/2015 11:03

That's similar to the prank I helped my friend pull today, I'm pregnant and she has a 7 month old so I peed on a pregnancy test for her yesterday to show to her bf today.

magicstar1 · 01/04/2015 11:07

I got our Chief Executive to send an email in work stating that the electricity bill was to be severely reduced. Therefore, no heating was to be on between April and November, and air con only in June - August. All pc's to be switched off at 5 pm whether you're finished work or not.

It was hilarious...there were little groups of people in corners bitching and moaning but nobody would say it to him. We were in stitches at them all.

Fourarmsv2 · 01/04/2015 12:58

I fell for no. 97.

hoaxes.org/aprilfool/

I'm not normally that stupid but we were at school overseas so got the papers a day or so late. I didn't realise it was dated 1/4 until my friends who'd seen it on the news pointed it out!

Flissypix · 01/04/2015 13:01

I switched the toothpaste for cheese spread, 2 not very impressed dds.
My dd put a sign on DH car that said beep, and wave at my daddy for April Fools. He had no idea what was going on until he got to work and saw the sign.

Finola1step · 01/04/2015 13:04

DH and I got married

Parietal · 01/04/2015 13:20

my siblings had regular visits to the orthodonist when they were 11/14yrs old. On 1st April, brother wrapped his head in a bandage and mumbled all visit. Sister (normally the 'good' child) said sweetly that he had injured his jaw. cue a whole lot of fussing from the orthodonist and no real fixing of their braces that week.

Clawdy · 01/04/2015 13:25

Ds was seventeen and thought he was the coolest kid ever. One April Ist I told him our neighbour had asked if he would be the Easter Bunny at the local park Easter Fete. I said she knew he was studying A level drama and had thought he would enjoy it! I said "You'll be wearing a full bunny costume so no-one will know it's you, you just have to parade round the park while all the little ones follow you on the egg-hunt!" He stood there with a look of absolute horror on his face,saying "Mum, I really don't want to do it.... I really don't want to...." till I said "I wonder what the date is today..." We still laugh about it , well, I do anyway!

muminhants · 01/04/2015 14:25

I don't usually fall for them, but this morning, did briefly fall for the German Embassy's post that the Berlin underground is going to have double-decker trains, thinking that it sounded like a good idea.

Dodgy photoshop
How would they fit in the tunnels

Sighs at own gullibility ;)

Panicmode1 · 01/04/2015 14:32

When we lived in Brussels the Times ran an article on how the EU were thinking of giving the French speaking part to France and the Flemish speaking part back to The Netherlands in order to reduce admin costs of the organisation. My father worked at NATO at the time and apparently all of the Belgians were incandescent and it almost caused a diplomatic incident. Until they realised it was 1/4!

When I was about 8, a friend of my mothers phoned and said that Princess Di was coming to our local village and wanted to meet all the children, and as Prince William was such a tiny baby, it would be lovely if they could all bring baby clothes or a teddy for him. I rushed off to my mother and said we HAD to go and buy a teddy immediately for Prince William etc etc....she then very gently explained about April Fool's Day and I was gutted!

It's my son's birthday today - as soon as I was given my due date, I knew he'd be on time.....he adores jokes and so it's very appropriate that today's his birthday.

Golferman · 01/04/2015 14:40

Years ago I called my MIL pretending to be from the electricity board and told her to tell all her neighbours to switch off the electric until further notice .... She won't answer the phone now on April 1

ghostyslovesheep · 01/04/2015 14:52

I convinced my ex husband that 50 cents real name was Arthur Dollar

ConkerGame · 01/04/2015 14:54

When the Afghan war started some friends of mine (we were teenagers at the time) created a fake letter from the government that was sent to all boys aged 16 and over saying they were being conscripted to fight!

They thought I would tell pretty quickly that it was a joke as it said things like 'due to a shortage of government funding all boys will be required to bring their own tank' and so on, but I only skim-read it so thought it was serious. It backfired on them quite a bit as I got really upset and started crying at the thought of all my male friends dying in war!

CaspoFungin · 01/04/2015 15:14

Love these! At school once a mates teacher convinced us all there was going to be a new numerical system and taught us the equivalent of the new 1-10!

Roomba · 01/04/2015 16:28

Arthur Dollar!

IUseAnyName · 01/04/2015 16:30

In work one year I asked a colleague to call a customer for me, called Mr Lyon, then I gave her the number of the Zoo :)

PuppyMonkey · 01/04/2015 16:35

Had an urgent call from MIL to say could I come round as she'd fallen downstairs and hurt her ankle. I was all worried and set to leave when I twigged that she lived in a bungalow.

HarpyFishwifeTwat · 01/04/2015 16:36

I convinced my ex husband that 50 cents real name was Arthur Dollar

Brilliant.

When I was at primary school I added up all the money in my board games which came to something like £5million and told everyone at school that my dad had won the pools the night before and the amount of money we won was whatever I had added up. Some believed me, some didn't - it wasn't a brilliant gag until later. I thought I had told everyone it was an April Fool until later that night when one of the other mums came to our house and invited herself in.

She spent at least an hour dropping little hints about our "good luck" and it was nice that we were doing well and clearly asking for money without asking. My mum was completely baffled until she finally asked what the hell was going on.

missmakesstuff · 01/04/2015 16:41

I received our Oleg meerkat toy in the post today, so posted on fb that we've had a new arrival, delivered by the postie on the doorstep..
I'm 41+2 weeks pregnant, I've had lots of congratulations today! Even posted a pic and mentioned that he prefers grubs to breastfeeding, some still didn't clock...including Dh cousin, so I'm expecting a phonecall from mil any minute now, once she's told the pub and the news gets back to mil...

Was funny though..

BlackNoSugar · 01/04/2015 16:49

We lived in Germany but bought a car in the UK (via our friends). DH flew to the UK on Saturday (April 1st), stayed with our friends, and was driving home the next morning via a pre-booked ferry ticket. I rang him Saturday afternoon asking him if he'd seen the news, the ferry company had gone out of business. Cue five minutes of him having a meltdown about not having the money for another ticket, not being able to get another ferry booked at such short notice, having to book extra time off work if he couldn't get home.

You could tell when the penny dropped because the line suddenly went completely silent... except in the background I could hear our friends pissing themselves laughing.

MrsWedgeAntilies · 01/04/2015 16:52

At primary school (a very long time ago) every pupil sneaked in and hid from the teachers. At bell time no children appeared. Que teachers opening cupboards, curtains and big drawers to to find 150 ish giggling children rolling out.

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